Christian Declaration
A Declaration of Preference?: If Christians Wrote the Declaration of Independence If America was actually founded to be a “Christian Nation,” as Christian Nationalists claim, wouldn’t we expect the founding…
Category: American History
Above the Tempest
Can we get beyond or above the “clash of opinions” in politics (or religion)? In 1821, a young woman from Scotland visited the still relatively New Republic and published letters…
Washington’s Farewell
George Washington was the first President (and, yes, a slaveholder), and maybe among the first of the American Founders to see what happens when political parties fuel the factionalism that…
